Club News

November '06

Feature Article from Hemmings Classic Car

Don't Pass By the Parade
Virgil L. Jones was kind enough to drop us a line recently letting us know that the 52nd Annual Parade of the Antique and Classic Car Club of Butler County, Ohio, went off without a hitch once again on July 22. According to the club's Web site, it's "the oldest and largest locally sponsored antique and classic car parade in the United States."
"Judging and public showing took place before the cars paraded ten miles to Fairfield, Ohio, for a stop and viewing," said Virgil. "The parade then continued to Hamilton, where nearly 300 elegantly polished classics suffused the downtown area for a final showing with live jazz band background music." Trophies were awarded in 62 categories on the lawn of the historical county courthouse. Contact: www.antiquecars.org.
Living in a Taxi
We've had the Checker Car Club's calendar sitting on our desk for months now, just waiting for the end of the year to approach. Then we opened it up for this month's Club News--and saw that it runs from midsummer to midsummer! But don't make the fans of the orphans from Kalamazoo pay for our mistake--you'll only be a couple of months in, if you order one now. It's a colorful and nostalgic look at one of America's signature marques, featuring restored, original and abandoned Checkers from 1941 through 1982. Send $23 (includes first class postage) to club treasurer Byron Babbish, at 2616 Kopson Court, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 48304. Just don't tell him we sent you.
Cadillacs on DVD
The Cadillac & La Salle Club's Grand National is always one of the best club events of the year--and this time, they've got a book and DVD to prove it.
Director Tom Musson from the club's Southern California region says that the commemorative 76-page yearbook "features many pages of member cars (130 of them) from around the world, along with Cadillac-related articles, photos and human interest stories." The 70-minute DVD covers the whole Grand National, including interviews, old Cadillac TV ads, the winning cars and all the tours. Sold at cost, the publications can be ordered from www.caditalk.com..

This article originally appeared in the November, 2006 issue of Hemmings Classic Car.